A Custom Mood Theme in a Year

This week's Minimum and Medium moods are: Determined, Devious, Energetic

This week's Maximum moods are: Enraged, Frustrated, Grumpy

Differentiating Enraged from the upcoming Infuriated has always been a bit difficult for me; they're both pretty extreme forms of anger, but which one is more, and how do I express that? I've tended to aim for more subtle differences when I make big enough mood themes, with Enraged in my Fancy Rats being a mirror of Infuriated with a flaming background, and I'm planning something similar for my pigeon mood theme. The cloud mood theme, meanwhile, has a tornado for Enraged and a flaming tornado for Infuriated!

Frustrated, on the other hand, I feel has some pretty easy-to-grasp energy. If you're working with a fandom mood theme, there's probably at least one scene you can think of where your characters are frustrated by something! Finding something to pull for an original theme can be a bit trickier, but there's options out there. Frustrated is one of the few moods I skipped for the clouds, but the Frustrated fancy rat is trying to fit a square peg in a round hole, and the Frustrated pigeon is dealing with anti-bird spikes!

Finally, we've got Grumpy, another one with last week's Cranky that reminds me of uninterrupted naps. I keep on wishing it were Grouchy, so I could make Oscar the Grouch references 😂 That said, as with Annoyed feeling more "active" than Aggravated, Grouchy feels a little bit more mature than Cranky for me, or at least a little bit older and better able to use words.

Still, those are only my thoughts and impressions! What do these moods make you think of, and how do you plan to approach them with your own mood themes? Do you have an approach in mind for them? And what do you think the differences are between some of the more similar moods we've had these past few weeks? Let's talk about it!

Time for the second week of Part 3!

This week's moods are: Enraged, Frustrated, Grumpy

Something I didn't think to appreciate before, with my own very random approach to which moods I've been making, is that uploading leaf moods is so organized compared to the branching moods. All of the derivatives of "Angry"? All right there in a row! You don't have to go searching up and down the list of moods (or ctrl + f, as I usually end up doing) to figure out where the next one is going to go. It's pretty refreshing!

That doesn't say a lot about this week's moods, though! Does anyone have any thoughts on these three? Is Frustrated a little too relatable at this point in the challenge, or are you Grumpy that things aren't going faster? Having any trouble with this cluster of similar moods, or is it a relief to find a purpose for images that didn't quite fit Angry earlier? Let's talk about it!